The War Crimes Trials of the George W. Bush Administration may never take place in the fullness of the Nuremburg model, but on January 20, 2009, the public indictments in that never-to-be-realized trial were issued by President Barack Obama.
With the two principal defendants sitting immobile only several feet to his left, and with the former President’s parents and Mrs. Cheney sitting close by the accused, President Obama metaphorically stepped forward and for the whole world to see, delivered a public and long-deserved humiliating slap in the face to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all of the Neo-Con criminals who will never be formally tried and convicted.
But if the slap was symbolic, the indictment was real. The criminals were identified and their crimes were described in an Inaugural Indictment that will hover in the air forever over George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
The Inaugural Indictment Speech will be studied in history and civics, and in public speaking and English language classes all over the world in perpetuity. And in every context, every time it is read or recited or analyzed, every day forever, Bush and Cheney will stand accused; indicted for crimes against democracy and humanity.
It is a fitting Hell. Always to be harshly accused, never defended, nor rebutted, nor acquitted. Never. A virtual, rhetorical Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp that can never be escaped, denied or closed.
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